A Milford man who chased another man into a block of flats while waving a machete has been jailed for six months today.

Ivor Clarkson-Denbigh, aged 52, admitted two offences of possessing bladed articles in a public place, the machete and a lock knife.

Dean Pulling, prosecuting, told Swansea crown court how on June 26 Clarkson-Denbigh had emerged from the block of flats he lived in at Larch Road, Mount estate, with a machete tucked into the belt of his trousers.

He saw a man he believed had broken into his flat and shouted at him.

On seeing the machete the man ran into another block, pursued by Clarkson-Denbigh.

Mr Pulling said he was confronted by local people and left the scene.

Police officers found him in Cherry Tree Close. Although he had got rid of the machete officers found it nearby.

The court heard that Clarkson-Denbigh had suffered "constant bullying" and believed he had been deliberately targeted by burglars.

Clarkson-Denbigh had used the machete to cut down trees from which he fashioned walking sticks.

Judge Geraint Walters said he was becoming concerned by the "increasing number of people in west Wales with machetes who claim they use them for gardening."

Judge Walters told Clarkson-Denbigh, "You believed he had burgled your property. That said, there was no justification for you to be in possession of two very dangerous weapons.

"There is potential for very serious harm when someone is armed, drunk and angry, and you were all three."

Judge Walters said it as necessary to send a very clear message that people who carried knives would receive jail sentences.